Engl 1028 Honors Composition II Special Topic: Global Warming

O'Donnell, ETSU, Fall 2016

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last update: November 28, 2016

 

Various readings of interest will be posted here throughout the semester. Some, but not all, of these will be assigned in class. For class reading assignments, see "Calendar," above.

 

I. In the News

- "How big droughts, forest fires could be the new normal in Appalachia."  By Nsikan Akpan.  PBS News Hour, November 22, 2016.  569 words. www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/widespread-forest-fires-claims-may-signal-new-normal-appalachian-mountains/

- "Trump’s Climate Contrarian: Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A."  By Henry Fountain.  The New York Times, November 11, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/myron-ebell-trump-epa.html

- "Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’." By Julie HIrschfeld Davis, Mark Landler and Coral Davenport.  The New York Times, September 8, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/obama-climate-change.html 

- "Coal Country Is Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Pledge to Help." By Coral Davenport.  The New York Times, August 28, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/us/politics/coal-country-is-wary-of-hillary-clintons-pledge-to-help.html 

- "U.S., China ratify Paris climate agreement."  Reuters News Agency, Saturday, September 3, 2016.  www.reuters.com/article/us-china-climatechange-idUSKCN11901W 

 

II. Science

- www.howglobalwarmingworks.org No author, institution, or dates listed.

- "Flooding in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change." By Jonah Engel Bromwich. The New York Times, August 16, 2016. mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/climate-change-louisiana.html (Also read the reader comments on the article--the ones filtered as "NYT Picks".)

 

III. Politics and Policy

- "Salvation Gets Cheap" [Op-ed, regarding the economics of clean energy].  By Paul Krugman.  The New York Times, April 17, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/opinion/krugman-salvation-gets-cheap.html 

- "In NC, dangerous delays and delusions on sea-level rise." Op-Ed. The News & Observer (Charlotte NC), July 9, 2016. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article88567407.html

- "Nature Conservancy Study Shows Appalachian Mountains To Be A Climate Change ‘Stronghold’." By Russell McClendon. Huffington Post, June 6, 2012. www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/nature-conservancy-study-global-warming_n_1574671.html

- "Scientists Locate Natural 'Strongholds' across Southeast US that Could Protect Nature in the Face of Climate Change: Work continues to locate more climate-resilient landscapes across the United States." The Nature Conservancy website, June 2, 2014. www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/areas/centralappalachians/newsroom/central-appalachians-climate-change-strongholds.xml

 

IV. Public Relations

- "Global Warming Explained, In About A Minute." By Tania Lombrozo. National Public Radio, December 16, 2013. www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/12/15/251437395/global-warming-explained-in-about-a-minute

- "Rachel Carson’s Critics Keep On, But She Told Truth About DDT." By Richard Conniff. Environment 360: Reporting, Analysis, Opinion & Debate. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. September 10, 2015. e360.yale.edu/feature/rachel_carsons_critics_keep_on_but_she_told_truth_about_ddt/2908/

- "Rachel Carson Didn’t Kill Millions of Africans: How the 50-year-old campaign against Silent Spring still distorts environmental debates." By William Souder. Slate dot com, online magazine. September 4, 2012. www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/silent_spring_turns_50_biographer_william_souder_clears_up_myths_about_rachel_carson_.html

- "Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago: Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions."

By Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer. Insideclimatenews dot org, September 16, 2015. insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken

- "Feeling Cornered, Coal Industry Borrows From Tobacco Playbook, Activists Say." By John Schwartz. The New York Times, August 16, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/science/coal-industry-feeling-cornered-peeks-at-big-tobacco-playbook.html

 

V. On Reading Sources and Writing

- "MLA Eight Edition: What's New and Different," at the Purdue University Online Writing Lab website, last updated August, 2016: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/22/

- "Lies in the Guise of News in the Trump Era."  By Nicholas Kristof.  The New York Times, November 12, 2016.  mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/sunday/lies-in-the-guise-of-news-in-the-trump-era.html 

- "Headings- Six Levels Deep." A page from an html tutorial developed in 1995 at Maricopa Community College and posted here: muskingum.edu/~webmgr/archive/tutorial/tut/tut3.htm  Accessed November 2016.